Lance Grimsley

In this lesson students will learn about Richard Montanez, the janitor who created Flamin' Hot Cheetos. The lesson includes a video about Montanez with questions. After learning about Montanez, students will visit Frito-Lay's website, then they will design a Lay's chip bag using a step by step tutorial. Students will then give a short presentation to the class about the chip flavor they created and why they think it will be successful. The lesson is provided as a link to the Google Slides Presen

This might be my students favorite lesson. In this lesson, students take an image with a head shot and put the face on another image. I typically have my students use their own face or the principals. Students love the results. This is a great lesson to introduce layers to students using the free editing program Pixlr. The lesson is provided as a pdf and with a link to the editable Google Slides Presentation. This is a step by step tutorial and no prior knowledge of Pixlr is required. Teachers o

In this lesson, students take an image and make it black and white and then add some color back in. This lesson is similar to the the effect from the movie Pleasantville. This is a great lesson to introduce photo editing basics with the free editing program Pixlr. This is a step by step tutorial and no prior knowledge of Pixlr is required. Students could create fun posters with these for language arts, social studies, etc. This is updated for the newest version of Pixlr! (Free version)

This lesson is for teachers and students. Tired of seeing and using the same backgrounds in every slideshow presentation? This lesson shows how to use free online tools to make unique backgrounds that really add to slideshow presentations. This is updated for the newest version of Pixlr! (2021)

This fun lesson has the students creating Valentines like the ones from elementary school. Students will follow the tutorial to learn how to create Valentine's with Pixlr. The students will create puns for their cards. Updated for 2021 Pixlr!